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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Peter Nwaoboshi as he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Senator Nwaoboshi was presented to the President by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee and governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, at the First Lady’s Conference Room,...

THE Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, said yesterday that N24 billion had been paid out to beneficiaries under the 774,000 special public works scheme as at June 24, 2021. He also said that 413,630 Nigerians, drawn from rural communities and mostly itinerant workers in different local government areas, have received their payments form the social...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, fixed September 27, for the determination of a suit challenging the nationality of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The suit was filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the Egalitarian Mission for Africa, querying the citizenship of Abubakar, through its counsel, Akinola Oladimeji, who informed the court that he was not prepared...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are no factions in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). This is as the commission also denied reports that it disqualified the party from participating in the November 6 Anambra State governorship election. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday...

Gunmen broke into Hilltop Hotel at Tunga Maje in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday night and abducted some guests and the owner of the hotel. The hotel owner, who was identified as Prince Adejo and six other people where said to be holding a meeting inside his hotel when the gunmen struck. Tungan-Maje has been witnessing series of kidnapping...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today depart Abuja for London for a scheduled medical follow-up. Buhari, according to a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, is due back in Nigeria during the second week of July 2021. The president had, on March 30, 2021, left Nigeria for his first medical trip in over a year and returned home on April 15. Protesters stormed...

The Caretaker Committee And Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will get another six months extension, according to sources. The committee was put together on June 25, 2020, following the sack of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the party, by a court. It had the mandate to stabilise the party and organise a convention to usher...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted between Saturday 19 and Tuesday 22 June 2021. But it is withholding few for “further investigation”, said Fabian Benjamin, head of protocol and public relations at the board. Benjamin, who noted...

The Abia Central PDP Zonal Chairman, Chief Chukwudi Ezebuiro has frowned at the recent clandestine meetings and attendant communiqués flying around on the issue of the successor of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. In a Press Statement signed by Chief Ezebuiro and sighted by ABIAPULSENEWS, the party chieftain stated that the focus of every genuine PDP member should be to “encourage our...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $951 million to the Bayelsa Government. The amount is the 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue and payable to the Bayelsa government. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the judgment, held that the Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF), the sole defendant in the case, failed...